Cameroon: Is the Babessi's Mayor sponsoring ransomers supposed Ambazonians?


Gendarmes accompanying hostages of Bangolan village (Babessi subdivision and municipality) released after payment of large ransoms

His name is Chuo Issa. He is mayor of the municipality of Babessi  (Ngo-ketunja Division, in the North-West region). For the past few months, he has been singled out by the people as the godfather of a horde of ferocious gangsters claiming to represent one of the secessionist armed groups in Ambazonia, but curiously anonymous.

True or false ? Difficult to say it exactly, Cameroonvoice fault for having been able to meet the main mis en cause, which would have also deserted his city of residence-because of important meeting in Yaoundé, according to his relatives; to escape the rumbling anger of the people who discovered that he was the cause of their misfortunes, according to his critics-.

Still, according to critics whose version unanimously given and concordant is not (yet) denied by the relatives of the mayor, it would be behind an armed gang composed of many elements that proceed regularly, almost daily, kidnappings of persons (including wealthy men or their wives and children) whose release is conditional on the payment of large financial and other ransoms.

This is the case of the cattle breeders (non-native) of the Mbororo and Bamoun ethnic groups of Babessi commune, who are privileged targets of the kidnappers in the pay of the mayor, who claim their membership in a so-called army of liberation of the an English-speaking people, hitherto unknown to the battalion of the numerous separatist armed groups, whose action boils down to the taking of hostages among the populations.

Our sources say that once a breeder is kidnapped, the kidnappers sometimes claim between 2 and 5 million to release him, according to their knowledge of the importance or not of the herd of the victim, knowing that this one generally or his family, unable to dispose of this sum of money in cash, will offer a roughly equivalent compensation in heads of cattle and cows, or between 6 and 15 cattle.

The ransom is then discreetly conveyed to the mayor who integrates it into his flock to enrich it.
The wick would have been sold by a breeder of the same ethnicity as the mayor, residing in a district on the outskirts of the town, reputed to house the greatest breeders. It served as indicative to the mayor, for the identification of the most stocked flocks, so to puncture at will. It turns out that after a huge raid false false “separatists of the mayor”, the latter, a little too greedy, did not want to give him his quota of oxen agreed, arguing that he had to give a good part to administrative authorities from the chief town of the district to the level of the region who were advised of the scheme, and who might be upset at not receiving their share of the spoils. The accomplice of the mayor godfather “Ambazoniens” version brigandage would have realized later that it was not and would have sold the wick by confidant interposed. What learning, the head of the village Babessi was eager to go to the meeting of the mayor to advise him to abandon these criminal practices under pain of curse of the ancestors of which he is the successor. An opinion that rather revolted the mayor who threatened him with death, and sent his bandits after him.

After two failed attempts at kidnapping, the village chief is now a refugee in the town of Foumban, in the neighboring West region.

It was here that he met, late last week-end, the mayor Chuo Issa of Babessi, who was passing by, and told him in front of witnesses that he was still alive, and that his disappearance was only a retreat, for he intended to return to Babessi, come what may. And this one to retort to him in front of witness, that he had only to return to be beaten and to pay 1.5 million to his “agents” – which he for the occasion designated under the name  “members of the vigilance Committee of Babessi” that the leader would have defamed by peddling gossip on their behalf and calling them hostage takers in the pay of the mayor. It was after these words of the mayor that the conversation turned into water of pudding, and it took a lot of trouble for those present to end violent exchanges of punches that the two protagonists exchanged without consideration for their respective statutes, in a city very far from their own.

At the time of their separation, the mayor threatened the village chief in exile to let him know hell on earth. Threats that the witnesses say about the altercation take all the more seriously as the mayor counts among his relations, except the administrative and security authorities of the Northwest region who manufacture crimes and misdemeanors and impute them to n ‘ not only that, but also the terrible Minister of Territorial Administration, also accused by some of his critics of nurturing armed groups who are terrorists in the region claiming to be separatists, with the dual aim of discrediting the separatist cause English speaking, on the one hand, and making money on the other.

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